Marking time in April 2008

Monday 7 April 2008

Peter Garrett and Nobby’s Head

The Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, is inviting comment on his proposed decision not to approve a new building wrapped around the 1858 lighthouse at Newcastle. For the record, I have written to him supporting his decision to refuse this inappropriate and damaging proposal.

1902 photograph of the Nobby’s Head lightstation in Alfred Searcy’s album of NSW lighthouses, from a digital copy held by the State Library of NSW.